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Show Finai Game of Series At Gunnison Sunday Gunnison and Salina Will Play Final Game for Pennant of Southern Utah Baseball League. Clufc Standing Won Lost Gunnison 1 1 Salina 1 1 With Salina winning yes- j terday's game and Gunni- son winning the game of I last Sunday, the contenders for the championship of the J Southern Utah league, are 5 tied and the deciding game is to be played on the Gun- 2 S nison diamond next Sunday c afternoon. The game will be called promptly at 3:30. try as they might the "jinks" could not be shaken. And, too, Salina played ball. Beginning Be-ginning with the first inning and continuing con-tinuing for almost the entire game, the visitors slammed that little old "pill" at will, and the runs they put across the home plate were all earned, all twenty-five of them. Lester Fredrickson, the idol of the entire league, and whose record for the entire season has been one of envy, could not fool the visitors, and he was hit easily. For the first two Innings Lester gave his best, but to no avail. Then Le Pace was substituted. Lee was hammered, toe, and in the With horseshoes in their gloves, 6n the end of their bats, and horseshoes horse-shoes in their shoes, horseshoes dangling, dan-gling, from their ears and noses, and horseshoes everywhere, the Salina Baseball club, in the second game for the pennant ' of the Southern Utah Baseball league, unmercifully whal-loped whal-loped the Gunnison Kings on the lat-ter's lat-ter's diamond yesterday afternoon. It's a shame for the Kings to tell the tale, but the overworked score-keeper score-keeper made the announcement that while the boys from the south rolled up a quarter of a hundred runs, the locals had to be content with just two. Ain't it awful, Maggie? While the visitors were decorated with horseshoes of the luckiest kind, that little old "hoodoo" had the Kings tightly embraced, and where the horseshoes were found as decorations deco-rations on the Salina boys, the "hoodoo" "hoo-doo" rested serenely on the corresponding corre-sponding positions of the Kings. Never in the history of basnballdom has an exhibition like that of Thursday Thurs-day been seen in this county let us hope it will never occur again. The only logical alibi that can be offered by the Gunnison Kings is that every player was "off, off, off," and third inning i redrickson went DacK to the mound and the farce was continued con-tinued until the eighth inning, when Harold Halverson "jollied" the boys for awhil? the visitors siammcd thy ball just the same. This is wuar. Salina tot 25 runs 27 hits, sever, walks and a victory. However, the tale of Thursday might be, Gunnison had the distinction distinc-tion of annexi-r-Cthe first game in ths playoff with 3a!ina at the latter's diamond dia-mond last Sunday. 'Die game from a standpoint of "real playing" wa? the best exhibition gi en by any of the contending teams ir, the league this season. It was isled with thrills from beginning to end and the result was a score of 4 to 3 in favor of Gunnison. Gun-nison. Faiina started cut with two runs in ihe first Inning. Gunnison lad to content hersell until the seven! sev-en! h -dth six goo-V)-er:gs. In tho evenih the score was tied. In her half of the eighth, Gunnison took the lead with one run. Salina again tied the score by putting one across tha home plate. When the finals of the ninth came, Lestev Fredrickson, after two men had been put oul, clouted a homer, putting the Kings iii the lead with one. Immediately after his home-run, Fredrickson retired Salina with some real twirling. |